This file photo taken on April 20, 2021 shows an empty vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine among empty vials of different other vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) and AstraZeneca at the vaccination center in Rosenheim, southern Germany, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. German health authorities on November 10, 2021 advised against the use of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for people under 30 due to evidence of a small risk of cardiac inflammation. The Stiko vaccine commission cited studies showing that mRNA jabs led in rare cases to the conditions myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart) in younger patients, with slightly higher prevalence in those who received Moderna.
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This file photo taken on April 20, 2021 shows an empty vial of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine among empty vials of different other vaccines by Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) and AstraZeneca at the vaccination center in Rosenheim, southern Germany, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. German health authorities on November 10, 2021 advised against the use of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine for people under 30 due to evidence of a small risk of cardiac inflammation. The Stiko vaccine commission cited studies showing that mRNA jabs led in rare cases to the conditions myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue surrounding the heart) in younger patients, with slightly higher prevalence in those who received Moderna.
Christof STACHE / AFP